In Balochistan, five civilians were killed in extrajudicial actions, while four others were forcibly disappeared by Pakistani forces. According to the Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC), the body of 17-year-old student Hatim Baloch was recovered nearly 11 days after he was allegedly taken by Pakistan’s Frontier Corps in the Panjgur district.

 

In a separate incident on the same day, the rights body revealed that Pakistani forces killed four Baloch civilians in a staged encounter and brought their bodies to Panjgur Hospital, claiming that they were killed in a combat engagement.

 

Expressing grave concern over the human rights abuses across Balochistan, the rights body said the killing of Baloch has assumed a brutally systematic form of Baloch genocide. It said, in Panjgur district alone, around 40 Baloch youth have been ruthlessly killed and their mutilated bodies discarded within the past three months.